Soviet TU144 crashes at Paris air show
Aviation experts examine wreckage after the Soviet supersonic TU144 exploded during an exhibition flight in Goussainville near Paris. Fourteen people were killed and 28 injured as wreckage damaged houses and a school area. The crash marked the first reported supersonic civilian airliner disaster since the Soviet program began.
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le Bourget
Paris
Elias Antar
Associated Press
Russia
Mikail
Koslov
Wheatfield
Andre Turcat
Moscow
Ervin to Resume Watergate Hearings Despite Cox Delay Request
Sen. Sam J. Ervin Jr says he will reopen the Senate Watergate hearings on Tuesday despite Archibald Cox urging a weeks long delay. The North Carolina Democrat leads the committee and warned a two to four month postponement is possible but won’t happen if he has a say. The panel will hear Sally Harmony, then Robert Riesner Hugh W Sloan and Maurice Stans in sequence this week. Strauss confirms his Dallas home was broken into three weeks after last year’s break in, with no items stolen but a search for party financial records.
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Washington
Sam J. Ervin Jr
Archibald Cox
North Carolina
Senate
Ervin
Sally Harmony
Nixon
Commerce
Maurice Stans
Robert S. Strauss
Associated Press
Dallas
Tex
Strauss
Watergate
Bernard L. Barker
Watergate Complex
Barker
Jack Anderson
Call
Miami Beach
Anderson
James W. McCord Jr
CBS
Illinois House approves land trust disclosure and school financing bill
The Illinois House passed a land trust disclosure bill on a 92 17 vote and approved a plan to finance public schools with more aid to poorer districts on a 131 2 vote, sending both measures to the Senate. A separate measure establishing police bargaining rights cleared 114 4. In Herrin a tornado caused 500000 in damage to mobile homes and businesses, with no injuries reported as volunteers aided cleanup and officials noted a miracle no one was harmed.
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Ill
Illinois House
Senate
John Edward Porter
Evanston
Joseph Lundy
House
Gene L. Hoffman
Relmhurst
Illinois School Problems Commission
John Jacob Wolf
Chicago
Herrin
UPD
John McVey
Parmley Jack
Dorothy Hall
Illinois
Mobile Home
Norge-Fedders
Illinois Ethics Act Upheld By Supreme Court
The Illinois Supreme Court rejected Stein's challenge to the Illinois Governmental Ethics Act, ruling no substantial federal question was raised. The decision affirms wide financial disclosure requirements for officials and candidates, noting the act serves a compelling governmental interest despite broad language.
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Supreme Court
High Court
J. G. Stein
Stein
Cook County
Illinois Supreme Court
Secretary of State
State Supreme Court
Ohio River drowning near Harrisburg claims three lives
Gallatin County sheriff’s police planned to resume search for three missing presumed drowned after a 16 foot flat bottom boat capsized in high waves and wind on the Ohio River. Missing were Bill Martin, 47, his wife Carolyn and their 9 year old son Frank, among eight aboard.
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Shawneetown
UPI
Gallatiin County
Eight Die In Rural Centralia Crash In Illinois
Sei bert B Tucker, 49, of Rural Centralia died when his car hit a head on with a car driven by Susie Gates, 32, of East St Louis on Illinois 161 two miles west of Centralia. Gates and seven passengers were among eight injured in the collision.
U S Dollar Down as Gold Rises to New High
In Europe the dollar fell sharply as markets reopened with nervous trading. Gold climbed to 120.75 an ounce while the dollar slid to 2,6540 marks in Frankfurt and weakened in London Zurich and Paris amid Watergate era concerns about President Nixon.
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U.S
Europe
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Zurich
Paris
Nixon
White House
John Dean
City Council Meets Tonight In Mt Vernon
The Mt Vernon city council will convene at 7 30 PM at City Hall for a short session with three items on the agenda. A second reading of Clifton Harp’s single lot zoning request is planned, along with a first reading to expand police department size and a resolution approving a lease with Joe Martin for storage space next door. Possible actions include Jaycees Christmas lighting funding and a liquor license for the Emmerson Hotel, pending ordinance amendments.
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City Hall
Clifton Harp
Joe Martin
Martin
Jaycees
Emmerson Hotel
Dorothy Calloni Earns AA at Rend Lake College
Dorothy Calloni of Christopher earned an Associate of Arts degree from Rend Lake College on Sunday. A mother and grandmother, she previously trained as a Licensed Practical Nurse at SIU Vocational Technical Institute to aid her daughters’ education. She plans to study elementary education at SIU this fall and recently won second prize in non fiction in the college literary supplement.
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Dorothy Calloni
Rend Lake College
Christopher Grandmother
Sandra Lahtinen
Rochester
N.Y
Mary Martha Miller
Valier
Market Basket Comparison Upward Trend Chart
Prices for eggs and coffee rose in major U S cities from March 1 to June 1 this year, with the AP report noting a general upward movement. The accompanying wirephoto illustrates the trend across several markets and highlights varying degrees of price change.
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U.S
Price Of Coffee and Eggs Rise in AP Survey
The Associated Press market basket survey shows 35.4 percent of 15 items up from March 1 to June 1 across 13 cities. Coffee rose in 11 cities and eggs in 10, driven by earlier wholesale increases amid droughts and disease affecting Brazilian crops and export controls by major producers.
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Louise Cook
Associated Press
London
International Coffee Organization
Brazil
Colombia
Africa
Skylab crew eyes space walk to free jammed panel
At SPACE CENTER HOUSTON AP Skylab astronauts await a decision on a space walk to free a jammed solar panel The outcome could double the station's power and hinges on commander Charles Conrad Jr who may lead the EVA Mission control plans a Tuesday briefing after a day long Marshall Space Flight Center meeting to weigh risks and procedures Storey Musgrove said things look good for the walk later this week.
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Houston
Skylab
Space Station
Space Agency
Charles Conrad Jr
William C. Schneider
Newsmen
Storey Musgrove
Spacemen
Conrad
Schneider
Marshall Space Flight Center
Huntsville
Ala
Crackdown Planned At Jaycee Lake In Mt. Vernon
Mt. Vernon police will patrol Jaycee Lake areas more in the evenings this summer after a graduation party left much litter on the lakeshore. City Manager Ray Botch ordered enforcement of drinking and curfew laws to curb violations.
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Mt. Vernon
Jaycee Lake
Ray Botch
Wayne Defends Nixon Watergate as Panty Raid
Seattle interview with John Wayne defends President Nixon over Watergate. Wayne criticizes press and Congress, calls the bugging a panty raid by underlings who enjoy cloak and dagger, and says Nixon had ended the Vietnam War and achieved much before the scandal. He cites Ehrlichman and Haldeman as arrogant aides who harmed Nixon.
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Nixon
Seattle Post- Intelligencer
Wayne
White House
John) Ehrlichman
H.R.) Haldeman
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